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Track makes city of believers
A snow-covered Dubuque Greyhound Park, which cost $11 million to construct. Conceived by Durrant Group of Dubuque, the facility was featured in a trade magazine for its design. Capacity if about 6,000, while the Council Bluffs facility will have…
Races not the only draw in town
Looking south on Main Street. In the background is the Town Clock, the unofficial symbol of Dubuque. Relocated in a plaza in 1971, the clock is the hub of a downtown area undergoing redevelopment partially spurred by the track. Nonpareil photo by…
Nonpareil Travelers See Extremes Of Gay Paree-By Day, And By Night - Visit Notre Dame And Other Famous Places
Standing On Bridge . . . over the River Siene, members of The Nonpareil European Holiday tour take pictures of Notre Dame.
Nonpareil Group Lives It Up AT Famed Lido Cafe In Paris - With Topnotch Entertainment
(top) Watching French Go By . . . from the most famous sidewalk cafe in Paris are members of the Nonpareil Holiday tour. This is the Cafe de la Paix on the Place de l'Opera. Paris is loaded with sidewalk cafes, which do a tremendous business with…
Nonpareil Group Starts Love Affair With Switzerland, An Exquisite Gem - Most Beautiful Of Countries
Admiring The Scenery . . . in Switzerland are Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stephens of Council Bluffs. They are on the Butin Bridge over the Arv River. Geneva and the French Alps are in the background.
Nonpareil Holiday Travelers Enjoy Most Beautiful Train Ride In World - Through Picturesque Switzerland
(top) At Bern, Switzerland . . . Nonpareil travelers, on the right, take pictures of the Town Clock - while mechanical men strike the glockenspiel. Tourists from India, Italy, Germany and Turkey are in the crowd with cameras flashing.
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Pusey House Reminds The Nonpareil European Travelers Of Council Bluffs - Dates Back To 1884
Inspecting Name Plate . . . of Pusey House at Oxford University is Mrs. Marie Ross of Council Bluffs.
Nonpareil Travelers Motor Through 4 Countries In A Day - It's A Wonderful, Breath-Taking Trip
At Nymphenburg Castle . . . at Munich, Germany, are a group of Nonpareil Holiday travelers. The group was impressed by the thousands of new buildings. This city was severely damaged in World War II.
Nonpareil Travelers Are Sad After Viewing Ravages Of War At Munich - There Are Thousands Of New Buildings, But
Taking Pictures Of Round Altar . . . at Munich Park are Miss Alice Buffett of Omaha, Mrs. Blanche O'Brien of Council Bluffs and Mrs. Florence Ritchie, formerly of Iowa School For The Deaf. The World Eucharistic Congress will be held at this park,…
Nonpareil Group Has Lively Time At Hofbrauhaus, Where Hitler Got Start - Munich is Metropolis Of Many Things
When In Munich . . . do like the Germans, and this is just what a dozen members of The Nonpareil European Holiday travelers did. Here, in Munich's famed Hofbrauhaus, are (left to right): Covert T. Brown, Mrs. Marie Ross, Genevieve Jacobsen, Mrs.…
Nonpareil Travelers Find Schonbrunn Most Impressive Of European Palaces - In Vienna, Austria . . .
(top) In Front Of Belvedere Palace . . . in Vienna, the Nonpareil European Holiday travelers listen to their guide. This is known as the palace of the "beautiful view."
(bottom) Nonpareil European Holiday Travelers . . . see the real meaning of…
(bottom) Nonpareil European Holiday Travelers . . . see the real meaning of…
Beethoven Booted Out Of 23 Places In Vienna --- Piano Annoyed Neighbors - Nonpareil Travelers Are Told
Viewing Vienna . . . from St. Leopold Hill are the guide, Miss Karla Kayser of Council Bluffs, Miss Frances Zimmerman of Council Bluffs, Miss Mary Clare Joyce of Omaha and Mrs. Gladys Wilson of Council Bluffs. The view from the famed Vienna Woods…
Americans Count Blessings, After Seeing Moscow - Nonpareil Group Ends Holiday Tour
Inside the Kremlin Walls . . . Nonpareil European Holiday travelers leave the world's largest bell and the Armor museum after viewing one of the world's most priceless collections of ancient armor and trappings, jeweled icons, crowns, and garbs of…
European Holiday Comes To An End:
Kronberg Castle at Elsinore, Denmark, is framed here by an arch in the ancient wall, still protected by a moat, that stands on The Sound separating Denmark from Sweden by a short two miles. A group of Nonpareil European Holiday visitors clustered…
Fans had to learn to love the dogs
Terry Harrman
Fans had to learn to love the dogs
Roy Berger
Track makes Dubuque city of believers
Greyhounds round the bend at the Dubuque Greyhound Park. The dogs, which reach speeds up to 45 miles an hour, are muzzled to prevent them from injuring each other. In the foreground is the lure, controlled by an operator in a booth. Photo courtesy…
Dunlap finds joy in blend of family, job and union; He sees government role in meeting human needs
Dunlap's activism is part of family life for his 8-year-old daughter, Mandy.